Sketchbook - 'The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs'
This was one of my favourite stories so far and the drawing I like best is the frog/toad. I used a really characterful medieval drawing as the reference and I used COPIC pens and fineliner, and I think it’s quite amazing to see how ink and pens (or quills) have developed over the centuries, but also that we even still use them so much in art after all this time. After I discovered how much I like the use of backgrounds or borders, I layered the frog on top of two different papers which I drew patterns on with silver metallic pen; I noticed that a lot of the bestiary images have gold around them so I wanted to include this element of ‘shininess’. I think the mouse is less successful because it isn’t such a distinctive shape and the colours are dull, but the way I have placed it doesn’t elevate it in any way either. The donkey is also done in COPICs, fineliner and metallic pen, and I think the lines are very strong and assertive as I did each line in single confident strokes. The colours...